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SUBMITTER: McCranie JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4715449 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McCranie James R JR Hedges S Blair SB
PeerJ 20160112
Here we review the systematics of the threadsnakes of the Epictia goudotii Species complex in Middle and northern South America using external morphology and molecular data. Two species, Epictia goudotii and E. magnamaculata, are currently recognized from that region, but we provide evidence for recognizing, as species, three other nominal forms usually treated as subspecies of E. goudotii: E. ater, E. bakewelli, and E. phenops. Thus, together with E. columbi (Bahamas), we recognize six species ...[more]